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Utility Costs in New Hampshire

Explore utility costs in New Hampshire with state context, city dashboard links, related cost categories, service estimates, and planning notes. Compare utility cost context by state and use city dashboards for local household budget, climate, and housing signals.

State context Compare

Use this page to orient around electricity, natural gas, water, sewer, trash, internet, and household usage patterns before opening a city dashboard.

Local accuracy City

City pages help connect statewide averages to housing, income, utility, climate, and demographic signals.

Next check Address

Verify exact providers, parcel records, insurance quotes, and local fees for the actual address.

Service costs Estimates

Pair household cost research with local service cost estimates for repairs, maintenance, and upgrades.

Residential electricity benchmark $0.269/kWh

State-level EIA benchmark repeated on city pages with a source caveat.

Median two-bedroom rent across cached cities $1,220/mo

Housing type and size often explain utility usage differences.

Median home value across cached cities $271,200

Older/larger housing stock can change heating and cooling needs.

State labor benchmark 3.1%

Useful context for household budgets, not a utility provider rate.

New Hampshire Utility Costs Data Detail

New Hampshire utility research should start with the state-level EIA electric benchmark, then move into city dashboards for housing size, climate, rent, and home-value context. This page is a utility-specific drill-down, so it labels the electric value as a state benchmark instead of pretending it is a city provider tariff.

Largest cached New Hampshire city records for utility costs
CityPopulationElectricRentHome value
Manchester115,415$0.269/kWh$1,465/mo$336k
Nashua91,131$0.269/kWh$1,652/mo$373k
Concord44,219$0.269/kWh$1,360/mo$324k
Dover33,070$0.269/kWh$1,540/mo$398k
Rochester32,866$0.269/kWh$1,220/mo$263k
Keene22,923$0.269/kWh$1,275/mo$232k
Portsmouth22,332$0.269/kWh$1,778/mo$641k
Derry21,668$0.269/kWh$1,473/mo$357k
Laconia16,982$0.269/kWh$1,180/mo$309k
Lebanon14,759$0.269/kWh$1,732/mo$345k
Claremont13,054$0.269/kWh$1,077/mo$172k
Londonderry12,307$0.269/kWh$1,917/mo$433k

How This Page Differs From the Dashboard

The New Hampshire dashboard is a broad place overview. This utility costs page is a category detail page: it narrows the page around one search intent, compares the same metric family across major city records, and links back to city dashboards when local context is needed.

Use this page for statewide scanning, then open a city dashboard for neighborhood-level context and local comparisons. Use parcel records, provider bills, insurance quotes, and local fee schedules before treating any number as address-specific.

Source Notes

City-level values come from the cached Census ACS 2023 ACS 5-year place dataset where a matching city record exists. Electricity is a state-level EIA benchmark for 2026-03. Unemployment is a state-level BLS benchmark for April 2026. State-level benchmarks are planning context and are not city-specific provider prices, parcel tax bills, or insurance quotes.

Popular New Hampshire City Dashboards

Open city pages for local metrics and links. Category city URLs are kept aligned with the newer city dashboard system.

Methodology Notes

DataByArea combines generated page templates, public data signals, cached city metrics, state-level utility and economic context, and internal link checks. Where city-specific values are not available, pages should be read as planning context rather than exact quotes.

Source Context

Depending on the metric, DataByArea may use Census ACS, BLS, EIA, BEA, FRED, local assessor context, and cached city datasets. State-level values are not presented as parcel-level or household-specific quotes.